Brontë Parsonage News

A couple of things related to the Brontë Parsonage Museum and the Brontë Society that can be of interest to our readers.

First, the Brontë Parsonage Website reminds that these are the last days to visit the Cornelia Parker's Brontëan Abstracts exhibition.

The Bronte Parsonage Museum is open 29, 30 and 31 December (11.00 to 5.00) and 1 January (from 12.00). The Museum is then closed from 2 January reopening on 1 February 2007 with a new exhibition on the Charlotte Bronte and her first biographer Elizabeth Gaskell.

It is the last chance to see Brontean Abstracts, the criticly acclaimed exhibition by Turner Prize nominated artist Cornelia Parker.

The exhibition has been widely praised and includes images of Brontë relics magnified using electron microscopy, as well as video and sound installations featuring a commentary from two psychics whose responses to the Parsonage Parker recorded. The work is displayed throughout the house alongside the museum’s permanent display.

We really look forward to have more information on this exhibition about Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857-2007).

The Brontë Parsonage Blog also informs about a new initiative: Friends of the Brontë Society.

The Friends of the Brontë Society is the name of a group just formed at the Parsonage, made up of staff members. It will be concerned with raising money for the recently-finalised Forward Plan, intended to take the Society and the Parsonage into the Twenty First Century.

Fundraising will be one of the principal concerns of the Society in 2007: plans for a new centre for visitors have been in existence for a long time, needing only a massive injection of funds to make them come true, for example.

The Friends coordinator is Pat Berry. First event is a ceilidh to be held in Haworth on St Patrick's Day in March. More details nearer the date. (Richard)

Categories: Brontë Parsonage Museum, Brontë Society